by Orson Scott Card · BOLSILLO BYBLOS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466623377
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«El profeta rojo» is the fantasy novel by Orson Scott Card, published by Bolsillo Byblos in paperback (400 pages, in Spanish).
In an alternative 19th-century North America still under British sovereignty, magic is real and settlers face indigenous peoples. Alvin, seventh son of a seventh son, meets Chief Takumsaw and his brother Tenskwa-Tawa, the red prophet, and discovers with them the song of the earth and the cost of blood.
Second installment of the series The Tales of Alvin Maker, winner of the Locus Award for Fantasy and finalist for the Nebula and Hugo Awards. Original title: Red Prophet.
For readers of fantasy and alternative history, young and adult, and for those who want to continue the Alvin Maker series.
Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024, he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card coproduced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2003). Card's fiction often features characters with exceptional gifts who make difficult choices with high stakes. Card has also written political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writing; he has provoked controversy and criticism for his public opposition to homosexuality.
